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Laser imaging peers deeper into living tissue
Metabolic imaging is a valuable noninvasive method for studying living cells with laser light, but it’s been constrained by the way light scatters when it shines into tissue, limiting the resolution and depth of penetration. MIT researchers have developed a new technique that more than doubles the usual depth limit while boosting imaging speeds, yielding…
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How to secure your phone before attending a protest
Back in June 2020, when this article was first written, people were taking to the streets to organize for justice and protest against systemic racism and police brutality. It was revised two years later when people were taking to the streets to protest the possibility that the Supreme Court might overturn Roe v. Wade (and we…
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Turning a seaweed crisis into an energy opportunity
In 2019, Legena Henry, SM ’10, and the students in her renewable energy course at the University of the West Indies in Barbados wondered how to help their island stop using fossil fuel by 2030. Their first thought was to emulate Brazil—home to the world’s largest fleet of cars that run on sugar-based ethanol. But the small…
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Michael ’87 and Kathleen Schoen
As an undergraduate, Michael Schoen ’87 found that joining his fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha, and participating in team sports helped him make the most of his years at MIT. “MIT changed my life,” says Schoen, who played on rugby and varsity soccer teams. “But without athletics and my fraternity, I’m not sure I’d have gotten through…
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Infinity Nikki’s spooky new event will put my cheapskate skills to the test
It’s time to put all the lessons I’ve learned about Infinity Nikki’s gacha system to the test. There’s a new event coming to the game and with that comes a new outfit I actually want this time. After the game taught me an unfortunate lesson on the gacha economy, I’ve kinda taken it easy with…
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Xbox Cloud Gaming will let you invite friends with just a link
As part of its February Xbox update, Microsoft is making it easier to invite your friends to an Xbox Cloud Gaming session by letting you generate shareable links. You can send the link through an Xbox message or by copying it to your clipboard for pasting into any messaging app you want. Players can accept…
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Sonos speakers and soundbars are 25 percent off for existing customers
The Sonos Era 100 is more affordable than ever for Sonos customers. Since its app fiasco last year, Sonos has been busy slowly rebuilding its reputation with customers. This latest sale, which is exclusive to existing customers, seems to be a part of that strategy — and we’re not complaining, because the deals are solid.…
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IBM to Buy DataStax for Database, GenAI Capabilities
IBM today announced its intent to acquire DataStax, the longtime backer of the Apache Cassandra database that has recently broadened its reach into streaming data and generative AI. IBM cited DataStax’s capability to manage unstructured data as well as its vector database, which is used for developing RAG solutions. Apache Cassandra was originally developed at…
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FinData Explorer: A Step-by-Step Tutorial Using BeautifulSoup, yfinance, matplotlib, ipywidgets, and fpdf for Financial Data Extraction, Interactive Visualization, and Dynamic PDF Report Generation
In this tutorial, we will guide you through building an advanced financial data reporting tool on Google Colab by combining multiple Python libraries. You’ll learn how to scrape live financial data from web pages, retrieve historical stock data using yfinance, and visualize trends with matplotlib. Also, the tutorial demonstrates how to integrate an interactive UI…
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Meta AI adds Arabic support for Middle East and North Africa
Riding the wave of regional-specific LLMs, Meta AI is now available 42 countries and 13 languages.